Vision is not the only sense associated with physical attractiveness and partner preference.

Body odor signals a variety of information on matters such as eating habits,

hygiene, health, and more.

Based on a survey of hundreds of college students,

men rated visual and smell information as being equally important for selecting a lover,

while women considered how their potential mates smell to be the single most important

variable, in other words, women ranked body odor as more important for attraction than looks.

I've talked about the concern around aluminum-containing antiperspirants. What can we do to make

ourselves smell better?

Clinical studies dating back to the 1950s show that chlorophyll can be used to improve body

odors.

This led to a wave of commercial chlorophyll deodorant products, but, as one chlorophyll

scientist lamented, because of the unfounded

fantastic and sometimes completely idiotic claims made for chlorophyll by the promotion in

advertising men, the buying public as well as the scientist will remain skeptical, and rightly

so.

To be an effective deodorant chlorophyll has to be taken internally

at doses that far exceed those found in so-called deodorizing, chewing gums, and lozenges.

Studies showing the elimination of detectable underarm odors used doses on the order of 100 milligrams a day.

In other words, the amount of chlorophyll one could get in about a third of a bunch of raw spinach. So before slathering aluminum onto your skin,

I recommend first trying to deodorize from the inside out by eating a big salad every day, which may improve your body odor two ways,

hitting the chlorophyll threshold, and improving your health.

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